In the blasting heat of a Friday afternoon in Cairo, a group of people – among them a movie star, a thief, a madman, a cook and a pregnant woman – find themselves trapped in an elevator for 12 hours.
Muhammad Kamal, a simple young man on the tram, meets a girl he loves and shares his feelings with her, but her father objects to this relationship because of the poverty of this singer.
Romeo and Juliet set in 1940's Egypt. Two families are feuding but their children love each other, thus rejecting the premise that love is forbidden between them.
